Mary Heilmann

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Mary Heilmann (born 1940) is an American contemporary artist whose works include geometric abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture.[1]

Early life and education

She was born in San Francisco, California, in 1940 [2] and in 1947, moved to Southern California when she was seven. After her father died in 1953, she moved back to San Francisco with her mother and younger brother. She went to a small Catholic girl's school[3] and studied English Literature at University of California, Santa Barbara where her interest in ceramics was started and received her B.A. in 1962. Then she went to San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University) to study poetry and pottery[3] and transferred to the University of California, Berkeley in order to study ceramics and sculpture and earned an M.A. in 1967.[1]

Career

Inspired by her friend Richard Serra, the American minimalist sculptor and video artist, she moved to New York City after graduation work at Berkeley in 1968. She has known Richard Serra since her college days in Santa Barbara.[4] At Max's Kansas City, she met a lot of artists such as Keith Sonnier, Neil Jenney, Jackie Winsor, and Dan Graham. She became interested in pop culture and minimalist sculpture and created works inspired by minimalist techniques. Then she moved to painting with the bright colors, a few drips, flatness, and unusual geometries of the Pop artists. The works are abstract in nature, the artist works with a clear geometric vocabulary of forms. Despite her early move to New York, changed simultaneously with the Heilmann from sculpture to painting, her childhood experiences on the west coast and perhaps also after impressively depicts a longing through their compositions with an abstract design language and a clear color coding and occupied by various associations. She still feels the California beach culture, in particular the surfer culture, and the Beat Generation, which they identified in their youth, strongly connected. In combination with the captions refer to encounters and experiences, historical and everyday events and occurrences, film and music, or simple objects from their immediate environment. She is respected among her fellow painters,[5] and has been called "one of the most important abstract painters of her generation".[4] Her work has been the subject of many exhibitions since 1970.[2] Heilmann received the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award in 2006 and has received from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.[1] She owns her own gallery, Hauser & Wirth, in New York, where lives and works.[2]

Exhibitions

In addition to solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth, Zurich (2006), at the Secession in Vienna (2003), at the Camden Arts Centre, London (2001) and at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2000), she participated in important exhibitions such as The Broken Mirror ' at the Kunsthalle Wien (1993/94) and, nuevas abstracciones' at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (1996) part. In 2007 she dedicated the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach (CA), a comprehensive exhibition, which followed the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Houston, Texas, at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus (OH), and 2008 at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York was to be seen.

Major works

  • “Go Ask Alice,” 2006
  • “Capistrano,” 1994“
  • “Chartreuse,” 1987
  • “Gordy's Cut,” 2003
  • “Hokusai,” 2004
  • “Little Three for Two: Red, Yellow, Blue,” 1976
  • “Music from Big Pink,” 2001
  • “Rosebud,” 1983
  • “Tomorrow's Parties,” 1979-94

Further reading

  • Bleckner, Ross. "BOMB Magazine: Mary Heilmann by Ross Bleckner." Atom. "Bomb Magazine", 1999.
  • Heilmann, Mary. Mary Heilmann: All Tomorrow's Parties. Wien: Secession, 2003. Print, ISBN 3-88375-748-9
  • Heilmann, Mary, and Christa Häusler. Mary Heilmann: Farbe Und Lust = Color and Passion. Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1997. Print, ISBN 3-89322351-7

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Mary Heilmann." Art21. PBS, 2012
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hauser & Wirth,' Hauserwirth.com'
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Armstrong, Elizabeth, Johanna Burton, Dave Hickey, and Mary Heilmann. Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone. Newport Beach, CA: Orange County Museum of Art, 2007. Print, ISBN 978-3791338217
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Myers, T.R. ' ' Mary Heilmann: Save the Last Dance for Me' '. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84638-031-0.
  5. ↑ Samet, Jennifer. "Wild, Punk and Slightly Off-Kilter: An Interview with Mary Heilmann." Hyperallergic RSS. Hyperallergic, 12 Jan. 2013. Web.
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